Star Wars Foe

September 24, 1985

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney ''should have come right out and condemned'' the whole Star Wars project, an economics professor told the Ontario Peace Movement at its annual conference. Mel Watkins, an economics professor at the University of Toronto, said ''Mulroney didn't go far enough and hid lots of 'yes' answers behind a huge rhetorical 'no.' '' Earlier this month, Mulroney rejected President Reagan's invitation to participate on a government basis in Star Wars research but endorsed U.S. efforts to develop a defensive space-based weapon systems.